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Thread #48455   Message #727375
Posted By: GUEST,Gurney
11-Jun-02 - 05:28 AM
Thread Name: version of 'the cuckoo'
Subject: version of 'the cuckoo'
I'd like to find a set of words for an (I think) Irish version of "the Cuckoo." It is nostalgic for somewhere called BonCloudy/BonClaudy, and a fragment is "If I were a scholar and could write a fine hand, I would write unto my loved one, so that she would understand..." Heard it 30 years ago in Coventry. Ta.